I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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